MR.UN vs. TNT.UN, INO.UN, MPC, HOT.UN, SOT.UN, IVQ, IVQ.U, BRE, BTB.UN, and MRT.UN
Should you be buying Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust include True North Commercial REIT (TNT.UN), Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust (INO.UN), Madison Pacific Properties (MPC), American Hotel Income Properties REIT (HOT.UN), Slate Office REIT (SOT.UN), Invesque (IVQ), Invesque (IVQ.U), Bridgemarq Real Estate Services (BRE), BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (BTB.UN), and Morguard Real Estate Inv. (MRT.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:MR.UN) and True North Commercial REIT (TSE:TNT.UN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than True North Commercial REIT. True North Commercial REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, True North Commercial REIT has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
2.4% of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of True North Commercial REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of True North Commercial REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 22.07% compared to True North Commercial REIT's net margin of -30.73%. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 8.40% beat True North Commercial REIT's return on equity.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.7%. True North Commercial REIT pays an annual dividend of C$1.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. True North Commercial REIT pays out -66.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. True North Commercial REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 13.24%. True North Commercial REIT has a consensus target price of C$9.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.83%. Given Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than True North Commercial REIT.
In the previous week, Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust and Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust both had 2 articles in the media. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat True North Commercial REIT's score of 1.05 indicating that Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust received 10 more outperform votes than True North Commercial REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 48.91% of users gave True North Commercial REIT an outperform vote while only 48.08% of users gave Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust beats True North Commercial REIT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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